While in Texas I got a chance to corner Corey and force him to be in front of my camera so I could capture some pics of him and his one of a kind Ruff 29er build. This is one of the most talked about bikes in the scene, so I know I needed to get this one to the people. Full rundown after the jump!
First of all, today is Deacon’s birthday. Go give him some bday love on his IG.
Second of all, Deacon’s Courttek build has changed a bunch throughout his time having it. Although we’ve shot pics of it already, it’s basically a completely different build now. So we got out to a good ol’ basketball court with our buddy Josh and snapped some pics! (Full set and details after the jump)
Ruff recently announced that a new Ruff bar shape is currently out in the wild being tested by the team! While still keeping a 4-piece design, they take bend inspiration from the 2012 FGFS classic Machete Slayer bars but stepping them up with modern rise. Here’s what Jacob had to say about the forthcoming bars:
“We’ve received samples of some new 4 piece bars that the team is testing. After toiling over dimensions, we settled on two shapes. The lower offering maintains the GC bar box section with a nod to the classic Machete Slayers and their mellow bends. For the taller size, we took the inspiration direct from the Bob bars and refined to our preferred back sweep, up sweep, and width.
We’ll have both sizes available in chrome finish and ED black once they get the stamp of approval from our quality assurance department.
Go catch a session with a Ruff Rider and make sure to check them out! They are rolling in LA, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Bordeaux, and Tucson.”
I’ll report that I’ve received mine and am extremely excited to put them on my bike. Pics of my setup to come!
Chase is a beast. He’s comfortable on all obstacles, which includes boosting big quarter pipes. We were riding Stanton recently (as seen in our new park shmixtape) and he was boosting this hip. I had to get a pic of it cause he was getting up there.
I’ve been riding this exact frame for nearly 3 years now. It’s technically the 2nd Master Courttek prototype and even has a special engraving on the bottom bracket with my name on it, which the production versions didn’t have. It’s time to say goodbye though.
My good friend Paul and I shot some final pics of the bike to commemorate it and put it to rest properly. I’m not usually that sentimental about my own bikes, but I’ve become really close with this one for probably obvious reasons. I never thought I’d have my name on a frame and I’m still blown away by the amount of people that wanted to buy a frame that had my name on it. Seriously big thank you to everyone who snagged one.
Why are we saying goodbye to it though? All that i’ll say for now is that it’s not because the frame is broken. RIP Courttek build, you served me very very well!
Full gallery and bike check after the jump.
We went to good ol’ Hawaiian Gardens skatepark not too long ago with the crew and Pizza was airing the big quarter real nice, so of course I had to snap some pics.
Master frames, forks, and bars are back in stock for a limited time! The frames are on sale too, so there has never been a better time to get your hands on some of the most unique frames FGFS has ever seen. Check everything out on the Master store here!
In 2021 the Ruff team including myself, Matt, Corey, and Jackson tripped out to Atlanta to film for various projects including Corey’s amazing edit from 2023, FOAD Last Try, and my Still Here edit.
I documented some of the trip through photos and didn’t want to release them until the corresponding videos came out. Only problem is that I forgot to release most of the photos after every project released! So here are some of my Ruff Bike Co 2021 Atlanta trip photos.
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